| | Hi all, This week I'm bringing you a post on the ratcheting up of educational requirements (is the B.A. the new high-school diploma?) as well as a classroom-type article on analyzing subsidies. Hope you enjoy them! Cheers, Jodi Join the Facebook Page Follow Me on Twitter | | More on the Educational Arms Race... I generally refer to the market for education as an arms race because it has the features of a prisoners' dilemma-type situation where rational actions by individuals result in an overall outcome that may not be efficient. Read More | Analysis of a Subsidy A per-unit subsidy, on the other hand, is an amount of money that the government pays out to either producers or consumers for each unit of a good that is bought and sold. Read More | An Economist on the Debt, Kindle Single Edition... Economist David Leonhardt has a new Kindle Single (i.e. short book in electronic format) entitled "Here's the Deal" that helps people make sense of the debate surrounding the national debt,... Read more | Economists Practicing What They Preach, Immigration Edition... In general, economists agree that legal immigration were enabled for highly-educated foreign workers would be beneficial for the average US citizen. That's easy enough to say in the abstract,... Read more | | | | Related Searches | | | | Featured Articles | | | | | | Sign up for more free newsletters on your favorite topics | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About.com Economics newsletter. If you wish to change your email address or unsubscribe, please click here. About.com respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY, 10036 © 2012 About.com | | | | Must Reads | | | Follow me on: | | | | Advertisement | |
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